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Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

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U.S. Senator

The Resume

    (June 10, 1887-October 20, 1966)
    State Senator in Virginia (1915-1925)
    Governor of Virginia (1926-1930)
    Democratic Senator from Virginia (1933-1965)
    Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules (1941-1947)
    Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance (1955-1965)

Why he might be annoying:

    Although Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt made it possible for Byrd to become a Senator, he became one of the loudest Democratic critics of the FDR's New Deal.
    He had a record of being disloyal to his party, hesitant to support Harry Truman in 1948 and refusing to endorse Adlai E. Stevenson in the 1952 election.
    He was a big stick-in-the-mud for presidents, believing that federal power should be limited.
    He was one of the loudest advocates for segregation, his advocating of 'Massive Resistance' to integration caused many Virginia public schools to close.
    He ran for president in 1960, harming the Kennedy campaign in the South.
    He voted against all civil rights bills.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a self-educated and self-made man.
    As governor of Virginia, he improved the roads and turned a $1,258,000 debt into a $2,596,000 surplus.
    He was opposed to spending while on debt.
    He criticized government waste.
    He stuck by his conservative Jeffersonian principles no matter how unpopular they were.
    He strongly opposed socialism.
    He was known to be kind in person.
    He spent the last year of his life dying from a brain tumor.

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 29 Votes: 62.07% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 10 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 88 Votes: 84.09% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 112 Votes: 65.18% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 26 Votes: 57.69% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 66 Votes: 65.15% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 30 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 36 Votes: 63.89% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 104 Votes: 72.12% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 167 Votes: 70.06% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 250 Votes: 66.00% Annoying